"Who?!"
This seemed to be a method beyond their comprehension. Before they had even caught sight of the enemy, they had begun to dissolve... How was that possible?!
The rainbow light had yet to fade, yet heaven and earth had already fallen silent.
At the southern foothills of the Myriad Mountains, the battlefield that had once surged with ferocious beasts like a tide was now left with nothing but emptiness. Even as they died, the beasts never knew who had made a move...
Survival of the fittest; the strong are respected.
Mountains and rivers shattered, space twisted, and even the Heaven and Earth Rules became chaotic beneath the ravaging rainbow light.
Those ferocious beasts, their battle formations, their savage roars, and bloodthirsty gazes all vanished into nothingness, as though they had never existed.
The surviving beasts stood frozen where they were, the rainbow light that destroyed all things reflected in their pupils as their bodies trembled uncontrollably.
They had even forgotten to flee, for beneath such might, fleeing or not fleeing seemed to have lost all meaning.
Half a day later.
They finally saw the enemy. Spellships that blanketed the sky teleported in from afar, not a trace of aura leaking from them, as though they had screened off every aura between heaven and earth. They could only be seen with the naked eye!
"Th-this... is this a heavenly tribulation?" a surviving beast muttered, its voice filled with despair.
Yet its question was destined to receive no answer. The next instant, the rainbow light arrived and swallowed it, along with everything around it. Before perishing, it only heard a vague voice:
"Clear the battlefield. Bring their corpses back. We continue onward—kill our way into the Demon Kings' lair and leave them no chance to catch their breath."
Between heaven and